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Article: A half-century covering the business of people: since 1955, the evolution and growth of the HR profession have been chronicled in the pages of HR Magazine.(human resource)
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- December 1, 2005
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HR Magazine marked its 50th year as a magazine in 2005. Although a predecessor publication. Personnel News, was launched as a newsletter in April 1950, it consisted simply of four typewritten pages copied on a mimeograph machine for the 124 members of the American Society for Personnel Administration (ASPA)--later renamed the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).
By the mid-1950s, ASPA was beginning to show some stability after struggling for more than seven years to establish itself. It debuted a reformatted, magazine-style Personnel News in February 1955, circulated to only 505 ASPA members. Although no 1955 copies could be located, available records ...